slovo | definícia |
impenetrable (encz) | impenetrable,neproniknutelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
impenetrable (encz) | impenetrable,neprostupný adj: Milan Svoboda |
Impenetrable (gcide) | Impenetrable \Im*pen"e*tra*ble\, a. [L. impenetrabilis; pref.
im- not + penetrabilis penetrable: cf. F.
imp['e]n['e]trable.]
1. Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting
the passage of other bodies; not to be entered;
impervious; as, an impenetrable shield.
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Highest woods impenetrable
To star or sunlight. --Milton.
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2. (Physics) Having the property of preventing any other
substance from occupying the same space at the same time.
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3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.;
unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives;
as, an impenetrable mind, or heart.
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They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but
impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel. --Jer.
Taylor.
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impenetrable (wn) | impenetrable
adj 1: not admitting of penetration or passage into or through;
"an impenetrable fortress"; "impenetrable rain forests"
[ant: penetrable]
2: permitting little if any light to pass through because of
denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog";
"impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable]
3: impossible to understand; "impenetrable jargon" |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
impenetrable (encz) | impenetrable,neproniknutelný adj: Zdeněk Brožimpenetrable,neprostupný adj: Milan Svoboda |
impenetrable jargon (encz) | impenetrable jargon,nepochopitelný žargon Milan Svoboda |
impenetrable rain forest (encz) | impenetrable rain forest,neprostupný deštný les Milan Svoboda |
impenetrableness (encz) | impenetrableness,neproniknutelnost n: Zdeněk Brožimpenetrableness,nepropustnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Impenetrableness (gcide) | Impenetrableness \Im*pen"e*tra*ble*ness\, n.
The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
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impenetrable (wn) | impenetrable
adj 1: not admitting of penetration or passage into or through;
"an impenetrable fortress"; "impenetrable rain forests"
[ant: penetrable]
2: permitting little if any light to pass through because of
denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog";
"impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable]
3: impossible to understand; "impenetrable jargon" |
impenetrableness (wn) | impenetrableness
n 1: incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to
understand [syn: impenetrability, impenetrableness] |
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